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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 2-D arrays
Message-ID: <244@eos.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 17:23:49 GMT
References: <179@wsccs.UUCP: <696@nuchat.UUCP> <284@scdpyr.UUCP> <25699@linus.UUCP> <2378@pdn.UUCP> <1020@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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In article <1020@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> lindsay@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay) writes:
>2-D arrays should not in general be implemented as vector-of-pointer-to-
>vector. The Burroughs 6700 had to do it this way, and it was a defect of the
>machine.

A defect?  I'll pass that point of view on to the chief architect of
the machine the next time I see him (two weeks).  A feature! 8-)
A good paper, BTW, is Duncan Lawrie's "Access and Alignment of Data" paper
in IEEE TOC 1971.  But he's over at the Cathedral Hill at COMPCON right now.

Hey why we may have to divide comp.arch up, I got 25 articles to scan today.
I can remember when comp.arch was near dead.

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